Social construction of race & gender doesn't mean "whatever White people want to believe." This article is dangerous @contextsmag @ASAnews
#Sociology is critical thinking about society; where is analysis in this hateful book promo? @contextsmag @ASAnews https://contexts.org/blog/race-and-rachel-dolezal-an-interview/ …
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Not only does it give uncritical media attention to a problematic person; it's a distortion of social theory.
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It's ridiculous that white people think Dolezal is somehow unique or noteworthy when settlers >
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have been doing 'trans race' nonsense with indigenous culture for literally decades.
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Right. These behaviours need to be put in context, not accepted as "normal," curious or exceptional.
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Social constructionism is critical theory connecting personal biography to history, culture & place.
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Social construction of race means: race varies in its *social* definition dependent on social historical context.
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Critical theory of race also shows, while race is a social construction, racial relations are real in consequences.
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Which groups get to define racial categories depends on history & power relations. Colonialism structures dynamics.
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Racial categories, more so than ethnic identities, is imposed rather than self defined as fluid.
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Groups in power define & enforce race. Whiteness is still in control of elite groups not the oppressed.
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Social construction of race: how Australia imposed racial classification system to justify genocide of
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Social construction of race: how Australia legalised racial system to dispossess
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Social construction of race: why Australia named its immigration policy "White Australia Policy" & kept it for c.70yrs
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Social construction of race: why Southern Europeans in AUS defined as "not White" until new groups of migrants arrived
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Social construction of race: not individual choices but how society maintains racial hierarchy to reinforce inequality
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These are central sociological concepts that need exploring in any article especially one available to lay audiences.
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Article reinforces racism by leaving racist ideas unexamined. Undermines
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Article reproduces
#transphobia by likening Dolezal’s "minstrel" to transgender experience. This is NOT#sociology.@contextsmag@ASAnewsThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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That comparison has been heavily critiqued by transgender scholars & activists. It's dangerous on many levels.
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